Jonathan Schanzer

i don't think we should be celebrating that right now i think a lot of people are saying hey assad's gone this is great big victory you know this is you know alien versus predator you got one bad actor winning against another and we're gonna have to deal with them too so i think some interesting challenges ahead i think have yet to be grappled with by the lame dog outgoing by the administration they seem like bystanders right now the hope here is of course that the trump team

i don't think we should be celebrating that right now i think a lot of people are saying hey assad's gone this is great big victory you know this is you know alien versus predator you got one bad actor winning against another and we're gonna have to deal with them too so i think some interesting challenges ahead i think have yet to be grappled with by the lame dog outgoing by the administration they seem like bystanders right now the hope here is of course that the trump team

i don't think we should be celebrating that right now i think a lot of people are saying hey assad's gone this is great big victory you know this is you know alien versus predator you got one bad actor winning against another and we're gonna have to deal with them too so i think some interesting challenges ahead i think have yet to be grappled with by the lame dog outgoing by the administration they seem like bystanders right now the hope here is of course that the trump team

They're taking a good hard look at the new rulers of Syria, their patrons, you know, in Ankara and Doha, and trying to figure out how to make sure that they can be contained. Because Al Qaeda, we all should remember, not a good actor. And we could even see jailbreaks by ISIS, you know, up in the north in the Kurdish areas. That could make things even more chaotic.

They're taking a good hard look at the new rulers of Syria, their patrons, you know, in Ankara and Doha, and trying to figure out how to make sure that they can be contained. Because Al Qaeda, we all should remember, not a good actor. And we could even see jailbreaks by ISIS, you know, up in the north in the Kurdish areas. That could make things even more chaotic.

They're taking a good hard look at the new rulers of Syria, their patrons, you know, in Ankara and Doha, and trying to figure out how to make sure that they can be contained. Because Al Qaeda, we all should remember, not a good actor. And we could even see jailbreaks by ISIS, you know, up in the north in the Kurdish areas. That could make things even more chaotic.

This is one to watch right now, far from stable in Syria.

This is one to watch right now, far from stable in Syria.

This is one to watch right now, far from stable in Syria.